Our Board

MEDSAC Chair

Annette Milligan

Annette is a Registered Nurse who established INP Medical Clinic, Nelson’s Family Planning Clinic in 1989. She managed the Nelson-Marlborough sexual assault team from its inception in 2011. She has a strong background in governance in voluntary and professional capacities. In 2019 she was awarded an ONZM for services to health.

Vice Chair

Kate Taylor

Kate Taylor has been a member of MEDSAC since 2009. She is the Clinical Lead and a rostered doctor for the Waikato Adult and Adolescent Sexual Assault Assessment and Treatment Service. She works as a GP at several high schools and has a keen interest in youth health. In 2015 she completed a postgraduate diploma in Sports and Exercise Medicine. Kate is also the Chair of Midlands Sexual Assault Support Service.

Treasurer

Julia Fink

Julia is a Chartered Accountant with a specialisation in not-for-profit financial reporting. Her most recent full time role was as the Director of Finance, Risk and Digital Solutions at the Upper Hutt City Council, and she has recently moved to directorships and contracting in order to spend more time with her 9 year old son. She also runs her own Christmas decorating company for commercial clients. Julia’s interests are cross-fit, learning Te Reo Māori and spending time with her husband, step-daughters and little boy.

Secretary

Rose Percival

Rose Percival is an experienced consultant and senior executive who has planned and led lots of programmes of organisational change. During her varied career in consulting and executive management positions she has been a member of, and chaired, a range of governance bodies. Rose has recently completed a five year term as an independent member of the Army Management Board, which she really enjoyed. Until recently, Rose was a Partner and owner of a management consulting firm, and continues to consult part-time. Her core work lately has been in governance development and facilitation, organisational reviews, and helping clients with business cases for large public sector investments.

Director

Tamara Birchall

Ko Putahi toku maunga, Ko Wairoro toku awa, Ko Te Kotahitanga toku marae, Ko Ngati Whakaeke toku hapu, Ko Ngapuhi nui tonu toku iwi, Ko te whanau Pou/ Robust, no Kaikohe ahau. Ko Tamara Birchall toku ingoa.

Tamara is a rural GP working for a Maori Health organization in Te Tai Tokerau and currently is working towards accreditation as a MEDSAC clinician for the SAATS service in Northland. Tamara is a proud Maori Pasifika wahine and mama to a little boy and step daughter currently living in Whangarei. Her interests include fishing, travelling, adventures, kapa haka, coffee, socializing and spending time with whanau and friends.

Director

Lucy Halsey

Lucy Halsey is a Nurse Practitioner in Nelson, specialising in sexual and reproductive healthcare. She joined the MEDSAC Board in 2023. Lucy has been a member of MEDSAC since 2011. She is a SAATS Lead Clinician with experience in both nursing and forensic examiner roles. As the Director of INP Medical Clinic, manages the SAATS and NFSS contracts for the Nelson-Marlborough region.

Director

Debbie Harrison

Debbie Harrison trained and worked in the UK before moving with her family to New Zealand in 2008. She is a partner in a GP practice in Nelson and works as Lead Clinician in the Nelson SAATS service. She has been working as a MEDSAC doctor since 2011 and joined the MEDSAC board in 2020.

Director

Rachel Roskvist

Rachel Roskvist is a General Practitioner in Auckland and joined the MEDSAC board in 2019. She also works as lecturer at the University of Auckland and is part of the after hours team at Pohutukawa Clinic (the regional Auckland Adult Sexual Assault Assessment and Treatment Service). She has been working in sexual assault care since 2016.

Temporary Leave of Absence

Jessica Tucker

Jess Tucker moved from the UK to Christchurch in 2010. She is a doctor at Family Planning, and at the Christchurch SAATS. She has been a member of MEDSAC since 2012. Jess joined the MEDSAC board in 2018. In between work and being a mum, she is currently studying towards a Masters in Forensic Medicine.

Director

Beatrice Te Whata-Woods

Ko Ngāpuhi tōku iwi, Ko Ngāti Moerewa tōku hapu, Ko Beatrice Te Whata-Woods tōku ingoa.
Bea is a whaikaha and takatāpui wahine who uses the pronouns she/they. She has worked in the health system in Aotearoa for 15 years in clinical and non-clinical roles, mostly in the gynaecological space. She currently lives in Pōneke and works for Sexual Health and Tū Pakari Ora (Wellington Regional SAATS/NFSS) doing stakeholder engagement and equity mahi with agencies and services, survivors and their whānau.

Director

Loraine Witana

Ko Loraine Witana tōku ingoa. Ko Te Aupōuri tōku iwi, Ko Whāngarei tōku kainga.
Loraine is a Registered Nurse who has worked for Te Whatu Ora, Health NZ, Te Tai Tokerau for the past 15 years, from 2016-2023 she worked as the Clinical Nurse Specialist in Child Protection / Paediatric SAATS. In 2023 she took up a role as an Associate Clinical Nurse Manager at the Bay of Islands Hospital however she remains on the MEDSAC on-call roster; She has a passion for MEDSAC & it’s mahi. Loraine is a mum of three boys, and she enjoys spending time with her whānau, playing netball & walking her dogs.